Driven Snipe

These shoots have been organised by the Arundell Arms for many years, and have established a unique reputation in the shooting world. They are one or two day shoots and are run every week from the end of November to the end of January - excluding Christmas. We take a minimum of six and a maximum of eight guns on each shoot, and there is an average of 8 to 10 drives a day. The shoots take place within a 15 mile radius of the hotel over a mixture of plough, grass and marshland.

Each morning at 9.30 am we collect you from the hotel and bring you back at about 4.30 pm. There is some walking involved but we can take cars quite near to most of the drives. We have lunch either informally in the hotel bar or at a conveniently situated inn.

Driven snipe is possibly the most challenging of all forms of shooting, and bags vary according to the experience of the guns (seven to ten cartridges fired to one bird down is the average) and the number of birds shown. Being migratory birds, nothing is certain and individual drives can vary from a handful to several hundred birds being put over the guns. All birds shot are shared between the guns.

Cost:

£195.00 per gun, per day, including lunch and transport to the drives and VAT. If all the party provides their own transport to the shoot, the cost is reduced to £175.00 per gun.